2022 eass & ISSA World Congress of Sociology of Sport

Session

PS 33: Sport, Policy and Governance 2

8 Jun 2022, 13:30

Description

Chair: Rodrigo Soto-Iagos
Room: N6, Building HZM 1st Floor

109. Geopolitics and diplomacy at the Olympic Games in East Asia from 2018 to 2022

Jung Woo Lee

08/06/2022, 13:30

This paper concerns the interface amongst sport, diplomacy and geopolitics at the recent Olympic Games in East Asia, namely PyeongChang 2018, Tokyo 2020 and Beijing 2022. With reference to international relations theories such as realism, liberalism and institutionalism, this study attempts to conceptualise a global sport-mega event as a political space where various types of inter-state...

110. The franchise management culture of Taiwanese professional baseball clubs

Po-Hsiu Liｎ, Hao Fan-Chiang

08/06/2022, 13:50

Baseball was brought from the United States to Japan and then from Japan to Taiwan, a modern sport introduced by the colonists and developed into a professional sport by 1990. However, this global/American sport was operated under a franchise management model which involves a touring arrangement and a home and away system running in parallel. Teams are given corporate names instead of city...

111. Navigating Uncertainty: How do PE Teachers Respond to Competing Institutional Pressures?

Louise Lindkvist

08/06/2022, 14:10

Little is known about how organizational members, in this case PE teachers, respond to the particularities of certain institutional pressures. Such knowledge is needed to unfold the discussion on how external expectations are managed by PE teachers who in turn makes internal adaptions that creates organizational principles. Insights as such may ultimately help shed new light on the origin of...